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An Indian Jugglerm Anteks.
There was nothing very, remarkable In
the appearance or dress of our conjurer.
An elderly man, short and sparely made,
dressed In dingy white cotton, wIlth very
tight sleeves to his be Vid very tight legs
to his drawers, he n ght have been a re
spectable servant out of place, but actually
was a small land-ownar who had taken to
conjuring for his amusement. When he
entered the room lie spread a white cloth
upn the floor and sat down upon it with
hi6 back to the wall, the door of the room
being on his right hand. Ilis spectators
were disposed of in the following fashion:
Mr. Smyth sat on a chair nearly in the
middle of the room, I was sitting on a sofa
near the door, the Parsee merchant stood
In the doorway about arm's length from me.
The servants stood about in groups, the
largest group being between the door and
the conjuror. As soon as lie had settled
himself, he turned to the Parsee and asked
or the loan of a rupee. The peddler at
first demurred a little, but on being guaran
eed aat *t los's, hie produced the coin.
Ho was oing to put it into the conjuror's
aand, but the latter refused and told the
Parsee to hand it to Mr. Smyth's bearer.
The bearer took it, and at the reguest of
the conjuror, looked at it and declared it to I
be really a rupee. The conjuror then told
him to hand it to his master. Mr. Smyth
took It, and then followed this dia'ogue: I
Conjuror-Are you sure that is a rupeeg
Smyth-Yes.
Conjuror'Close your hand on it and I
hold it tight. Now, think of sonic country
In Europe, but do not tell me your
houghts.
Then the conjuror ran over the names of
several countries, such as France, Germany,
Russia, Turkey and America-for the na
tive of India is under the impression that
America is in Europe. After a moment's
pause, Mr. Smith said he had thought of a
country.
" Then open your hand," said the jug
gler; "see what you have got and tell me
if it is a coin of the country you thought
of." It was a five-franc piece, and Mr.
Smyth had thought of France. He was
going to hand the coin to the conjuror, but
the latter said, "No, pass It to the other
salub." Mr. Smyth accordingly put the
five-franc piece into my hand; I looked
closely at It, then shut my hand and thought
of Russia. When I opened It I found, not,
a Russian, but a Turkish silver pice about
the size of a five-franc piece or of our own I
crown piece. This I handed to Mr. Smyth
and suggested that lie name America,which
lie did, and found a Mexican dollar in his
hand. The coin, whatever it was, had
never been in the conjuror's haud from the
time the rupee was borrowed from the Par
see merchant. Mr. Smyth and his hearer 1
had both of them closely examined the ru
pee, and Mr. Smyth and I turned over sev
eral times the flve-franc piece, the Turkish t
coin and the aollar; so the trick did not (
ciepend on a reversible coin. Indeed, it <
could not, for the coin underwent three I
thanges, as has been seen. I need only
add, for the information of those who know
not India, that a rupee is only about the
size of a florin, and, therefore, about half
the weight of a five-franc piece. The jug
gler performed several other tricks that
day, but they were of a commonplace kind, I
and in no way comparable to the coin trick
which I have never seen rivalled by any
other conjuror in India or Europe..
Too Many Weddings.
During the last trip I took over the
Pacific Iallroad, I noticed that after we
left Omaha the man in the seat In front of
me appeared to have something upon his
mind. He would scowl dreadfully for a
moment, then lie would gaze with ia far
away look out of his window. Thenm he~
would dlraw a huge bowie-knife from his
cov. pocket, and, after strappling it upon
his oot, he wvould run his thumb along the
edhge. A fter scowling a fewv minutes more,
lie would take omr a revolver, examine the
chambers. to assure himself they were
loaded, mutter a few vigorous senteuces,
and put it away again.
I watched him a day or two, andi at last
lhe saw me looking at him. Hie said'
"I reckon you think I am excitedi about,
something? Well I am I I ami going ump
to Salt Lake to kill a man."C
"Indeed, llow terrible I What's the I
matter 1"'
''Well, you scc-by' the way, do you
know Jhn Stephens?
. ~,no; I think not.".
"Well, this is the way it came abouti
Twelve years ago Jim and I were friends,
and when I got marriedi Jimi madhe me a
present of the most splendid silver cake
basket you ever saw in your life."
"That's not what you are going to kill I
him for, is it?"
"Of course not I And I felt so grateful
that I toek him by the hand, and said.
'Jim, I'll get you a cake basket as hand-1
some as that whenever you are married, as
sure as my name is Jonathan Lockwood.'
Made him a solid pledge, you know."
"Did lie marry subsequently?7"
"Marry? 0 thunder 1 Let me tell you
aboumt It. About a year after lie went to
Utah and became a Mormon. Within a
month he sent me cards for his wedding to
Hannah Watson. So I went out and
bought a sublime cake basket, and for
warded it by express. Two weeks later lhe
wrote to say that Hannah's sister, Ethel
botta, had been sealed to him, and lie askel
me out to the wedding."
"Did you go?9"
"No; but 1 sent him another cake basket.
But hardly had a fortnight elapsed when
Stephens telegraphed to me that asold Mrs.
Watson, Hahnah's and Ethielberta's mother,
seemed so lonely now that the girls were
-gone, lhe had, concluded to annex lier, also.
lHe promised to send full particulars by
mall. That night a third resplendent cake
basket went west In charge of the express
companmy."
"You have paid three to one, then."
"Three? Walt till I get done. Well, I
heard nothing more from him for a year or
more, when one day cards came for his
marriage with Louisa G. Carboy. I was
pretty poor about that time, and hardly
able to make presents to anybody, but I
had pledged my word ; so out went another
kmposig cake basket."
"Did he get it ?"
"He wrote and said his darling Louisa
thought It was beautiful, and he added a
posteeript In 'which lie mentioned that he
had arranged fo: a further consolidation on
the following Thursday with Helene Blk
ersam relict of oldBllkershamtime popular
hatter.4
"Did you respond ?"
"I did ; I borrow06 some money from a
friend, and forwarded the m~ost stupen
dous cake basket I could find. At thme
same time I wrote to him and asked him I
if he didn't think It most time to knock off.1
He replied and said he .was sorry I had
such narrow vIews about matrimony, par
ticularly as he had everything red for an
other parriage on the following Tesday
with Jane Wllberforce, a charming
girl of property." oet'rdi
"You.dldn't send on ohrddyou 9"
"tO 40ise i Couldn't breaicmy word i
She gotithe most impressive cake basket I
could 1afay hands on. Well, Stephens
did't topere. That was two years ago.
He h~s ntattled eight thnes :since, and I
- hafegonpq ftimerofptly'wikh the c*e
basketa Three days ago Ireceived notice.
th'at he was geing to marry agaip."
e gi.That/ yon linow, lets hIm
Jdge Manfien's "teapot.
ustice Joseph Mullen, of Jefferson
3 County, N. Y., has been spending a few
3 days at the house of Captain Henry War
ner, on Henderson Bay, eight miles from
Sackett's Harbor. The Justice is a thin
gentleman, with- a firmly cut mouth, and
hair and goatee as white as snow. ie was
stamped In the old-fashioned die of honesty,
and h - decisions have the ring of true
metal. Very few of them are reVerse<.
Tihe other night the Justice sat in anil easy
chair on the shore of the bay. Wavelets
rippled over the good-sized pebbles on the
beach, and a silvery moonlightedimmed the
Chinese lanterni-that swung in the arbor.
"Judge" said I, "t y te, 'ne that you
once fdl into thle hands of a policeman
whil visiting New York, and that lie ac
cused you of stealing a silver tea-pot."
The Justice smiled and drew his collar
up around Il neck, for the night air was a
little chilly. "Well," lie replied, "there is
a grain of truth In the report, but the inci
dents were much exaggerated at the time.
My wife had a silver tea-pot, on which she
sat great -tore. From constant use it re
ceiveA several dents on the sides, and she
Was ajixious to have them taken out. I
told her tnit when we went to New York
we could take the tea-pot down with us,
and have some export jeweler pound out
the dents. This was ten or twelve years
ago. Soon afterward we visited the city
and put up at the St. Nicholas I lotel. She
had wrapped the tea-pot in anl old newspa
per and packed it in the trunk. One after
noon after dinner, I tucked it under my
cloak and started for Tilfany's. As I was
going down the corridor of the hotel I felt
a tag on the shoulder. Oin turning, a po
lice oflicer caught me by the arm.
"I'here's been a good many things
stolen in tis hotel lately,' said lie, 'and I
i want to see what you've got under your
cloak.'
"I told hhu that I was a guest, and that
I was taking my wife's silver tea-pot to the
jeweler's to have the dents taken out of it.
lie gazed at me doubtfully for a few seconds,
and walked away as though perfectly satis
fled. I went across Broadway, left the tea
pot at Tiffainy's, and returned to. the hotel
within a few minutes. As I was going up
to our room I met the saie officer. Think
ing lie had consulted the register and learn
ed who I was, I said: '1 presume you are
now perfectly satisfied that I am all right?'
"1 'Oh, yes,' lie answered.
'1low did you find out ?' I asked.
'Find dut ?' lie repeated, in anll off
hand manner. 'Why, I followed you, of
course.' I y
The Justice paused, and a small meteor
flashed in the moonlit sky. "I have never
seen the man since," lie continued, after a
yawn, "but I have always thought that lie
displayed remarkable comion sense."
Resend from Hoars.
In Montreal, Joe Boef, has a bear pit
under his canteen in Comnion street. It
extends all along iuder the house, and is
roled over by a big black . bear weigbing
over 400 poumds. Tnere are also a she
bear and two comparatively young cubs,
which Joe reckons among his domestic
pets. Strangers frequently visit the place
and are generally escorted to see the bears
through a trap-door in the floor. Recently,
while a colored preacher was holding ser
vice in the "'singing room," three American
strangers came to visit the place, and the
tral) door was thrown open to show the
bears. While Joe went into the bar-room
his little boy, six years old, went too near
the edge and fell into the (ell. The old
bears were in a dark corner, but one of tile
cubs at once ran towards the child, who
had uttered a frightened scream. The cook
lay down on the floor anl reaching down
caught thle little fellow and raised him up.
The she bear had heard the child's cries
and~ with a growl rushed towards the trap)
d ooor and seized the child just as lie was be
inlg lifted up. Thle little fellowv was in an
Instant dIragged into the den, encircled by
the claws of the old she bear. Joe hearing
the noise wichl the fearful sight caused
caime to tile dloor anid asked wvhat was the
matter. Seeing lisa child, at, It were, in the
jaws of death, lie did not hesitate for a me
m lent to think, but leaped from the floor
into the. pilt, lightning on the head of one of
the bears, He maniaged by a frantic effort
to tear his child from the savage monster
aiid thirewv him behmnd. In another instan~t
lie haunded the little fellowv up among tihe
almost parlhized spectators. The muen
around seetned so suddlenly struck with ter
ror that they could do nothing to hl~cp Joe,
whlo had placed himnself in such Imminent
danger. The moment the child wvas out of
tile pit the she bear growled fiercely and
sprang on Joe, who hiad no arms to dlefend
hhufelf. The savage brute seized him by
the right knee, throwing him on lisa back.
11er teeth were driven fully an mch deep
into his flesh. He was was thlen complete
ly at the mercy of the animal, whlose tame
ness hadi disappeared, 1,t being enraged at
having tile. child taken away. The men
looking on st~ill seemed powerless to hlelp,
though one of tile visitors had a revolver In
lis pocket. Joe, hlowever, did no)t lose lia
presence of mmld, but seized a b~rick~ wJ)lich
lay .llear'hh, an'd stirlzbk the ?bea~odii thu.
snout with all his might. T1hle brute lt' go
her hold and jloo qiilckly gbt oa'ls feet.
The old lhe 11emr had nlot shown tight at all,
but when Joe shouted lyad- slunk back to
the (lark eornor:' -Tile she bear lib' stood
off, showing her teeth, but lie coltiuedi to
shout and she :also wvent bac0k. Joe was
then rescued from- tile pit, his loge being
covered- with blood. The trousers' which
he had on were torn to shreds and his stoc
kings were saturated with blood. Thle child
had not been Injured at all beyond a lIght
scratch on tile head. Joe says that the she
bear was alwvafs a contrary beast, and that
when 'he trained hler first 110 used to put
her In a puncheon of water and pushl her
hlead under 'with a broom, and 'when the
culb was nearly drowned it would bite the
broom. Joe refused all muedical attendance
and applied hiighwines to the bites.
A WonderAlt MII.
There is a mull near BradfOrd, in York
Ishire, England, which, when set at work
at the begianing of the week, goes on witha
out attenutlon or care, except to keep thle
engine running, until Saturday night, and .
would continue working indetinitely until
tile machinery was worn out if it were Blip-.
piled with materIal, turning out constaIntly,"
night and day, thle finished goods, which
are cords and trimuminigs of various kinds
of silk and -wool. No persons- are em
ployd In it except the engineer, a book
keepr, a feiw ch&Uiers of machinery and
p cers fdput ulp tihe finishled product' for
market. Mr. .tunas, the inventor' and
owner of thIs mill, Is a- man of great in-,
ventive resources, but-not hitherto remark..
ably prosperous. Throlugh some disagree
ment with a company whlih had purchased
tihe rlghit. to use certain of lisa inventions,
he has lately been thr~own Into bankruptcy,
but is still cheery and self-rellant. A nIght
visit to the mill Is thus described: " As we
approached the mill through the darkness,
thieroar and rattle of machInery .ould be
haeerd high above the gurgijngo ile brook.
We sat on the bridge. . The dark outline of
thie mill could -be seen,:and from it come
the busy sound of machinery. It was a
gaht -at work In the dark. The electrio
ight.is of no use to Mr. Bin. We went
kqahd railsqoT. ,. Th bhuis of the umilij
zwas goJ0pg owe s if Madreds of hagii..'er.
employed. When the'owner took out the
key and opened the door, th~e darkness was
pltchy.It could almost be felt;- A Boesa
out. What does the man mean ? Does lk
suppose. I own a cake basket factory, wher
they turn 'em out with a crank I Does h
suppose I have a mine where we oxcavat
baskets by the bushelI Has he got an idet
that cake baskets grow on a tree, and tha
all I have got to do 1.s to. knock 'em dowt
with a pole when they are ripe ?'Why, he'
an unmitigated ass! And as he won't le
mne off from my promise I'm going out t(
massacre him. You understand V In les
than three days titere will -be a dozen or a
widows In Salt Lake City going to see
Man named Stephens burled."
Then Mr. Lockwood turned glooml:
iway, sharpened his knife again on hi
oot, ind relapsed into silence.
It was a little hard on hin, I think my
Dory-Fishuing.
With, perhaps, an exception In favor o
he capricious canoe, there Is no species o
,raft, which can glide from beneath its utn
iccustomed occupant with more startlinE
3ase than a fisherman's dory. This charac
cristic, with the fact that it is light, sharp
tarrow, and flat-bottomed, suggests to th
iverage landsnan that a dory is not a very
mfe craft. Yet the (uestion of safety de
)ends largely upon the man having th(
nanagement. If skilfully handled, a dory
Avill ride out a gale in midocean with corn
)mrative ease, when a ship's long boa
,voild probably be swamped. The imipor
ant point under such circumstances is t<
ccep the little craft, as the sailors say,
'head on to the sea," which menns that thi
)ow must, continually be presented to th
mi-coninig wave. Thus imnaged, Ih<
lory, from Its extreme buoyancy, dance
ike a cork on the summit of terrible wave
:rests, which would break over and fill
ieavier boat. But if th e'icart of the rowe
'ails, or, worse still, if his thole-pin give
vay, or his oar breaks, then he is in dangei
ndeed. The dory, swinging broadside t<
ho sea, is rolled over in an instant, and be
:oies the sport of the waves, while its oc
:upant finds himself struggling in the ocean
'he three methods most. in vogue aiong
isherien for taking cod on the Banks o
gewfoundland are these-''hand-lining,'
'trawling" and "dory-fishing." The tw
ormer have been often described. It if
uflicent for me to say that in "'hand-lin
ng," all hands fish from the vessel's deck
vhile in ''irawling," a line sometimes i
nile in length, to which hundreds of baite
iooks are attached, is sunk to the proper
lepth, and visited once or twice in tli
wenty-four hours if the weather permit:
-So that the fish may he taken off aind the
iooks rebaited. But in "dory-fishing," n
lory is allotted to each of the crew, in
vhich, unless the weather is exceptionally
)1(, Ie must, launch out into the deep
here to remain until lie catches lils boa
'ull, or Is warned by the gathering darknes
o return. Though, as to that, it is seldon
>r never really light for any length of timt
)im the Banks. Here, indeed, is the birth
>lace of gloomier, denser, and more gene
-ally unpleasant fogs can he found any
where else in the known world. But catch
n1g thousands upon thousands of fine cod
1h1 seems an ample equivalent for no
iatching even a glimpse of the sun fo
vecks at a time, and, (oulbtless, the work
ooks all the brighter when one again
-eaches a region of clear atmosphere al(
ltinny skies. But, despite, the many un
leasant and dangerous surroundings o|
ulch a trip, alost every one returni
everal pounds hevier, and several degreo
,calthier. lardworked collegians, ant
ven puny hoy-students, often ship fron
'ape Ann or Gloucester in the spring, Witli
his sole object in view.
The Ruainan FSoldiers.
Theli Russian ofilcer hats the spk'lend
ralor of his nationality ; lie is no braggar
tnt (1oes Ils fighting as a matter of courae,
Lndl as part of the day's work, when he i:
iddeni to do it. As for the Russian pri
rate, I regard himn as the iest material fo
Ssoldier that the soldier-producing world
o far mas I anm acquainted wilth It, affords
Ic is an extraordinary weight-carrying
nrchier, tramp~ing mile after mile wilth
ood heart, with singular freedom from re
ance on stustenance, and with a goon
tomach for immnediate fighting at the em
if the longest foodless niarchi. lie nove:
~rumbles ; mamttei-s must have com~e to
ad 1)ass, Indeed, wihen lie lots loose hi:
ongue in adlverse comment on lia superiors
niured to privation from his childhood, hi
a a hard man t~o starve, and will live er
'ations, or chance Instalments of rations
~t which the British barrack-room ci
vould turn up his nose. Ills sincere pietl
ecording to his narrow lights, his whole
ecartedl devotion to the Czar-which is In
~rainedl into his mental system, not thi
esult of a process of reasoning-and il li
onstItut 101n11 courage, combine to b)im
bhout that he faces the casualties of tI
tttle-field wvith willing, prompt and long
'ustained bravery, lie needls to be led,
owever ; not so, much because of th~
noral encouragement wvhich a gallant lead
rr imparts, but because his reasoinig fac
ilties, for lack of education, being com
>aratively (dormant, lie (lees mnot not knov~
w'hat to dio when an nniaceustomiecl 01
inlooked for emergency occurs, He it
lestitute of perception when left to hhpl
elf. Somebody must do the thInking fo:
hnm, and impart to him the result in thi
mhapo of an ordler; and1( then lie can hi
rusted, while phiysical power lasts, to strivi
is prettiest to execute tihe order. But I:
here Is nobody in front of him or wvithh
ight of him to undertake the mental parl
>f the work, the Russian soldier gets dazed
venl in his bewilderment, however, 1he i
>roof against panie, and we saw him witi
tore hearts at Plevna, on the 30th of July
L8718, standing up to be killod in piteously
loble stubbornness or Ignorance, rathei
han retreat without the orders which thier4
&ere none to give. Th'ie Turkish soldier ii
ils master In the lituitive perception o:
ighiting necessities. TIheo formner Is a berm
oldier, the latter a brave peasant driller
uto a soldier. If the Turk advancing findi
imself exposedl to a flank attack, he need
10 oflicer to order hpin to changd his front
me grasps the aittiation for himself, and thi
s what the Russaan soldier has neither in
,ultivo soldierhood nor acquired intelligenc<
,o do.
IIo~ONR ED ND iSLiCsitD. - When a
board of emInent physieians and chem
sts ailunounced the discovery that by
)omnbininug some wvell known valuable
remedies, the most wvonderful medIcine
was produced, whieh would cure suehi
t wide range of diseases that most all
ther remedies could be dispensed with:
many were sceptical; but p roof of-Itt
merits by actual trial has dispelled all
loubit, and to-day the discoverers o1
hlat great medicine. Hop Bitters, arr
rionored and blessed by all as benefao
~ors.
T Ar DuuuADi'UL. AwtoroN. plps, 00ovitl
sions or FPus soon becomes lrayfixed b~
liabtft, each attack increasing the iabiity tol
return, and adding greatly to the difmlulty b
irr--sting the disorder. In the absence of propel
lieal meat, a mere faintness with slight museu
lar twitcings, ocurn tlong intervais i
ime become iount aovlsin of great Ire
luenoy, and the Datient gradalysi nks int(
muceelty. It rellef is obt~ialnal at anl atte,
the disease Is thbus firmly seated, it must b4
IrmM some treatment which is emanent. i
emlt.,and which not onl has a tendenoj
suppesthe attacks, but wh !i m
Lthe mori 'tendibhor to ftahse. rJsn'
Alterative hs happily been foubt We
the cause of the disease and whe its use i
sontinued for a sumotenL length of time pro
luess a permaneht cure. Let time aftlicted try IS
tion of awe succee1ed to one o"f vonr.
A mill at work by itself. One realized it
because no sounds of voices were herd. L
There were no girls singing at their work. vi81
No men calling to each other, no echoes of sup]
human voices. It seemed like an 'Arabian wo
Night.' Presently Blns struck a match. tha
We climbed the wooden stairs by candel Stol
light. Another door was unlocked. - Wd 0 g
were in the machine room. The din was ea
deafening. Every machine was at work, lot
pelting away as if for very life. Here was lot I
a triumph of hunin lugenuity. It was as nl
if a modern realistio money-making Pyg- ceni
inalion had made a machine and the spir& cen
of science had breathed life into it. Under. ha
the glimmer of the candle light we ap- av
proached one of the: machines. Flosh of and
wheel and bobbin, glitter of silken cord str
curling out like a variegated snake and fall- con
ing in twining curves into collecting recep- gar(
tacles, met our wondering eyes. 'Ah der
well, it needna ever stop for that niatter, you
long as ye feed and clean him, and you've ou
gotten to do that with a child, let alone a you
machine,' said Binns, in his characteristic tb
diatlect, when we once more stood out .in ther
the darkness." ser
pat]
Thme 14ow - tillkan. the
Ile was a milknian, workingup new cus- thd
tomers. Ile removed his hat at.the door, cien
asked the lady if she was Mrs. Blank, and ie
stated that he had often been struck with
the artistic taste displayed around her home. age,
Ile never drove by the house without think- in t1
ing of how happy the inmates must be. of
Ile had observed that the chiliren were al- up
ao.
ways dressed with due regard to harmony ad
of colors, the curtains had the hang of an iftl
artist's hand, and there was nothing gaudy wal
about the color of the front steps. soni
"We do not care for any more pictures in a
or statuary," foplied the lady. mid
Pictures? He would as jon think of In 11
trying to sell her coflins as pictures. No. hmnif
le had called to see iWthe family were of
pleased with their milkman If so, he stoc
would say farewell at once. If not-..-- her
" We have no particular fault to find, " feri
intcrrupted the lady. stre
But he asked her to stop and consider. " D
Her milkman was a fair sort of a man, but stre
no credit to a house like that. le had thes
never been known to say an outside word strei
in favor of the parlor curtains or the kitch- We
en range, and he drove a hQrse sixteen years and
old and a wagon unpainted since the panic. fd
His old horse crawled up, the driver shuflied of,
around to the back door with his can, and to a
that was the end of it. lie never went be a
home and wished to his wife that they stu(
could have a lavender-colored veranda or, wen
blue lambrequins, and he never halted a ll
other drivers to say that Mrs. Blank was Cas]
going to Saratoga for six weeks. by I
The lady wavered. Foll
Ilis wagon was new, had a landscape on Pas
the cover, and his horse cost him three wit'
acres of land out in Brownstown. When witl
lie drove up children stood in awe, and if sa"
there were any people passing, he took care pay
to say to the boy on the seat, "Give me' iOgP
the very richest cream now, for Mrs. Blank colu
is a born lady and rich enough to have the ered
very best of everything." That was his cur
wiay of doing business, and if his patrons occ
numbered all the leading Governors, Judges 8vas
and Colonels in the city lie couldn't be and
blamed. She must see fille
She saw. She said lie could begin the tant
very next day, and that she had been low
thinking of a change for the last six Weeks. terr
COvW
The BlInd Mole. basi
Ilis family name is Talpido, but lie is war
generally known as Healops aquaticuns.ig
And lie is only the common "blind niole " Ing
whose little hillocks here and there are post
familiar to eveiy one. And yet, by-patient city
and careful observation, we find that lie is the
a most interesting little aninal. Ills small left,
body is a combination of mechanical inmple- the
ments. is long snout servesas a crow- ran
bar, pickaxe and spade, and 'his whole
frame is an ingeniously isomplicated
machine, each p~art of which is wvell adapted
to its purpose. By the bonstant rubbing of 0
his sides against the walls of his dwvellang you
they becomie smooth. an~d hard, so that -he calki
scarcely carries any dust upon his body, and
though when I threw* hintinto the water I lie v
found that a little dirt gettldin the bottom The
of the tub. The little .creature searches plie
dleep into the earth for Insects, tender pbots, "
and~ worms, and It will even -sinkia well to "
suipplyits young wItikater. Evyorf spring min
and autumn from four to. iv'e baby-moles -awa
are added to the family ; gid as may little Tf
captive was born and reared under the the
ground, lie naturally soon begqn to pine for two
his "native element." So one day I car- comU
ried him back to the ruined hillock, and, ple,
quicker than a flash, ho disappeared be- the:
neath the surface. -Aa his tower had never a
been rebuilt since his capture, I inferred for
that lie was the sole oceupant of the hidden has
castle. Immediately on his return another Whi
mound began to form, and as I watched It "
from day to (lay I discovered that his noon- Tr
day visits outside were for the solo purpose left
of getting rid of loosened earth, which his
would otherwise be in his way, though glas
why lie should select just that hour for his fror
"out-door exercise -1 cannot imagine. thiei
During the months of June and. July the loola
umales and females mate, and- at 'that season buit
the males engage In) deadly conflicts wvith in a
one ~another, probably through jealousy pen:
and rivalship. two
- - boy
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Tho Pope's Garden.
et me relkte, says a correspondent, a
, to the Pope's private garden, which is
posed to be inaccessible to the outside
Id. Itsparticular interest is in the fact
for eight years the Popes have not
ped out of. the Vatican Palace except
o into.this garden, and naturally it is
Dusly secluded fiom profane intruders.
vever, we bribed the oflclals and were
nto the garden surreptitiously with per
don to reuin an hour, and we im
red the time to the uitnost. Until re
ly it has been only a place to stroll
it inI ott foot. lut now ihe Pope is
ing a carriage road made through. it,
has just had an elegant landau*con
cted in itom6, with 'the papal escutch
upon it, expressly to drive about the
ten in. The principal avenues are bor
I by fiat hedges, and in passing along
catch glimpses, through green arches,
he sweetest little sylvan retreats that
can imagine i birds singing, fountains
bling, light and shade playing through
flickering leaves, the air full of the
its of orange dma and roses, shady
is winding in and o.,, up and down in
most distracting way, the ground cov
Livith a thick matting of dead leaves,
accumulatioi of years. flere an an
t sarcophagus, with sculptured figures
elief ; there a marble statue, gray with
and a something inexpressively weird
le twilight gloom, the solitude and air
keglect and decay. Again, you emerge
a open, sunny spaces, and the proien
skirts a quadrangular space sunken
en to. twenty feet, with perpendicular
is, originally, perhap)s, the walls of
e ancient construction. This is laid out
a immense flower garden, and in the
9t the gorgeous papal monogram traced
ving verdure. A pretty asi'pri'e wa a
It grotto in rockwork, representing that
'Notre Dam de Lourdes," in which
d ,a jittle fancy figure of the Virgin, at
foot a little gratiug through which of
igs were dropped, and thrce tiny
uns of water Ilowing from the words::
rink and be healed." Of course, tiny
ins spout into a little basin, and above
e we applied our mouths to the little
mis and drank the consecrated water.
thought we had explored every- nook
corner of the garden, but had failed to
the place we were especially in search
.he famous Casino, where Plus IX used
It on sunny days, and which is said to
, favorite resort of the present Pope for
y and writing. We met a servant who
t with us to show the way and gave us
uquet of exquisite damask roses. The
no is completely enclosed and hidden
Ligh hedges and entered by a single arch.
owing a path through. shrubbery, we
ed uider a deep stone archway, lined
indiics--thred niches each side filled
Iancient statues-and caie upon a
il circular esplanade with fine mosaic
3ment,, enclosed by two semi-circular
;ias or porticos atpported by marble
Inns, the ceiling and inside walls cov
with beautiful bit faded frescoes and
ous mosaic and shell work, with niches
apied by busts and statues. All.around
a wilderness of flowers and shrubbery,
close by the great dome of St. Peter's
I in the view. Finally, through a dis
arch, we saw a vista of trees, and fol
ing it up came out upon an elevated
ice, where. under the shade of old trees
red with purple blossoms, was a large
n of water upon which was a man-of
in bronze, eight or. ten. feet long, the
Ing complete, rowd of cannons project
from the sides, the mariners at their
a. From this terrace was a vie wof the
, the castle of St, Angelo prominent in
foreground, and Monte Marie on the
the Valley of the Tiber beneath, and
Campagna stretching out to the Alban
:e in the dlistanice.
" Saaparilla."' .
a the Fourth of July, a red-facd
ig man belonging to an excursion party
d into a Woodward avenue drug store
softly asked the soda-fountain boy if
ras' out of any particular kind of syrup.
boy made an investigation and re
We aire out of sarsaparilla, but-"
That's all right-all righte-you.wait ,a
bite," interrupted the young man, and
y lhe went.
he boy took the empty' rerervoir from
fountain and replaced it, and in about
minutes the young maan returned in
pany with his girl and four ether p~eo
evidlently all friends. Walking up to
fountain he said:
1'm going to take sarsaparilla in mine,
he doctors all recommend it, and if he
no sarsaparilla I won't take nothing.
it do you say ?"
Oh, we'll take the same," they replied.
lhe young man began to smile, and his
eye began to draw down, but what was
horror to see thme boy draw off six
sea in succession and push thenm to the
t where they wvere eagerly drained of
r contents, Hie tried to give the boy a
of mingled hate and murderous intent
the fad was too busy to see it. H~e felt
11 his pockets, brought up watch keys,
nies and peanuts, and finally laid down
nty-seven cents and whispered to the
Trhat takes my pile, and if I ever catch
outside of town i'll lick you to death I"
Girls and IHoys,
then a girl is born the first portion of
infinitesimal anatomy that receives at
ion Is her nose. All her god-fathers, god
hers, aunts1 'uncles and cousinis assent
together in'iohein conchave to delib~erate
a what kind of a face handle (judging
a ancestral ones) it is likely to be ; edn
rable acrimony of temper is manifested
mies during these deliberations, for in
ce, when the childs mnateragl grand
lier ekbjresses lier' fears~ liut blio -poor
d will be forced to journey through life
ti a hofm'id "pmg,".tlie cdunterpart bf' its
uer, it iscoalcuilatedto make that gentle
m's maternal relative express herself in
rely. manher. Now, when a boy inakes
entrance on thme stage of life It is altp
icr differett; no one pays any mnore rh
I to his nasal appendage than they do
is great toes and it may bid fair to grow
es,ombhe a peg-top or an elephant's pro
als without exciting a word of angry
ment from his rival grandmothers.
y is this?9..,
F OO Orxo MOnf.-"For fon years
wife was cQnflned to baor bed with
hbk bdlhplicatloh of ailshens that no
tor could tell what was the , matter
uure herand I used up a small for'
tei unustuff. 81 mnts g
kW a U. 8..A with Hop noit ag
(tid .I thougt I weuld be a fool onens
re. I tried it, butmny folly -proed
be wipdonpr. 'J'9 bottles euredrher,
Isfiow ds well and strong as any
fl4W~~O~i~ost pa a ytW
Caught at IJasil
'he notorious depreodatgr Kate-Arrh
a has for so many year; oludefi' thd
st~accomplishl 'aid ' Akillful detec7
Rshbooe ughtat last in Jitffalo,
Cheine1ase Proverbs.
Ambition is like hunting ifor fleas.
The hasty isan drinks his tea with a
fork.
A little scandal is to tea what al olive
rs8 to wiVno..
A wivse man at court is like a inor
maid in a ball-room.
A Pold fight against inlfortOne will
ofttn enable a man to tide over a tight
-place and put ruin to fliglit.
Wdud We bUt )rotlt by the expert
once W6tothers'We should have the roy
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Malaria. that to I atmospheric poison, Is dis
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IL V. Kunkol's Worm Syrup never fails to
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other .worms can be readily destroyed. Advice
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50'oents per box, sent by mail for 60 cents.
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